| Show I Jerome K Jerome Jel ome Winning Special Correspondence ONDON bet Ocl 7 Everybody is L talking about the tho which has come so to tu Jerome Jerne JerneK K Jerome Two wo London plays bIg makers maker Imo have fallen falen to tho UiO lot It of the tho British humorist Perhaps l e lit I nobody nood in the lino lne more worthy to win out after aftel ha many y nr ff f struggle It I is l estimated that hi takings must be b something like Iko 2000 O a t week we lt although failure vaa wa fel predicted for fO his Passing of oC the Third Floor Back and tho London l critics mostly roasted it itI I I met Jerome J rolo In the tho Strand the other day and nuked a ld him how It IL felt fel to bo be making all I that money mJe lie le gave jno me ono of his most beaming beaming and h he could coul do f with it I which Is I an way 1 of expressing the tho idoL idea that too t much money would not prove a burden bUrlen Jerome is not ono of the themen tw men however to abuse his good luck lUGI Despite D his humorous predilections lie ho lake a very r serious view JI of o life Ife knows I a I lot lo about social problems Jo lems and ald de much of o Ills Is lime timo to 10 studying the he conditions uj l the submersed In fact his hi two to lust plays particularly I This rho Passing of tho Third Back are ure really of social clea Thi fact fac that has ha truck struck lie e proves that there are Ile plenty plenty of fortunes Still ti t be b made from writing drama the tho recent failure of ono nI or 01 two good phiys Among the themon 1 mon successful money monY makers in the lino 11 today tola are arl J M and Hall Hal Calne After Af one wol b production of Barrios Darrh I latest Ia What hat Every Woman Knows I at He l Duke of or Yorks Theater rhea tor the box of I 1 had bad seat orders in hand for fil 0 Mw Out of his play The Tho LH Jt t Minister l Ini ter Barrie Banle and his then thon partner Cyril 11 Maude netted the neat little lUc sum of a week while Pe Peter le leI ter I r Pan Pal Quality Street and The Admirable 11 brought to their i GOi each weekly ly for fol quIte finite I a n time Hall Hal Calle has been een netting a week from Crom his plays pla f for Cor a L long time now no while the recent Gilbert and an Sullivan opera vc n j f vivo I has brought Gilbert nearly 1 oeo Among other othor London playwrights lr t who have amassed fortunes might IK le mentioned Arthur who cleared d OOOO out of ono one play pIa alone Sweet Lavender PInero PIner is I the high est JalL dramatist In England Ha He got gets 00 for or each cach performance of a ply play a of a Used sum paid In ad vance By this arrangement he made another out of The Second Mrs Ir and is now adding to his Income by b the thc production of ot his ls plays pia in Paris pars parsIt It is lealy c lly remarkable how the thc ele ment of oC luck enters into ning in the matter of best made mute plays sIko like plans lan do not not always alwa s pan out There Is hI no earthly earth reason why wh the tho recent well wel written Paid In Full Pul should not have hae made a I fortune for Its author In England as It i doubtless s did In America again usain the vicissitudes of chance must lUft bo hu borno bomo in mind In this case cas bad luck camo In the form torm of a 0 actions who was not suited to the hero mo part Even Aunt which earned eared nearly for tor Pen Pene Icy e was refused several times ami Brandon tho author literally hawked It about from Crom manager to tomana manager mana gel for a 1 long time He lc finally interested a R man who put into It i as aR a venture and hud had out of o It within a L few weeks 18 OO 4 Gordon Craig has again broken out in a fresh place Ho 10 is 1 on his hl way wa to Moscow to study stud native nate Russian dra dramatic matic maUe art In its Hs lair Inh After that as announced n in our OUI last la t letter letor ha he will w return to London to help Tree pro duce Macbeth h Poop People Ie dont always return from Mascow lasco especially c when they the hoW hold such bizarre views of o life and as Gordon Craig His Ils main object in going is to study what he says a does docs not exist either elthel in Eng En Land Lall or America TIle The English stale does docs not produce real Ute life he ho said ald in the tho course of or a R recent interview It I has predilection for the tho improper It I Is 1 badly bad I put on Insufficiently re 11 heal NI and badly had I played Now the tho Russians lans are ar different is considered and the most is made madeo of o material mr at hand In Russia nu la the tho really roal Intellectual people go to the tho theater whereas In England and America they thoy dont The Tho reason in people decline to go to the playhouses hero is because the te Eng Enl li 1 h theater is a 0 swindle It 1 maybe may be bee bec c e c an nn amusing swindle a thrilling or 01 merely ly f tickling swindle IUs o ernald s a drama Thus Ihus sald old Gordon 0 ll called alel him wl who c Ii PI or not not depends 1 wholly oil ot the individual viewpoint ar ills i All sorts of Cl Al Wili Ith the tc doping hat nuisance 1 a I at tho tie do ot wish to resort t Jn lan d with lt the tl fall Call sex who visits matinees Hl lat four foul c or is isIt 5 or feet fe fn Jn It diameter r The h daw ilaw on Oll thc tho in H diameter d er Tho Jaw w on h cL bo rather vague and plO pio to bo of par ament bably a n parlament tho will have to be bo passed before wi 1 Is sufficiently l clear aur nt seo RM through tho fog or rather tho haA hat welt el kings counsel wi with ronca to t tho P was as consulted p tho thoa 0 two ladles who recently I I f n those a theater In l e gl II sombreros has given a I 1011 Opinion oh on Ui lS M I IThe The wearing Carl i of ofiL a hilt t ot or such s eli J I I Is of or the tho P P I ocr tho l Iid If iho Int over at side lc wearer or seat on o either Ither il lint of the tIO I or or J on of of tha th p lson s t pcs orIta e Is entitled to m oft of as S much of Ii r sl o of tho said wearer I hat on Ot rot thO tho pro as lis constitutes s a trespass on 1 seats ats 1 of adjoining s tio to the satisfactory This Is certainly cor and scorns thet m If ho objects tp to ii i big the tha I li to do doIs doIs theater lias at the tho ulli his Is Is to t at tak with wih hint him a pair pall of Ile off r ah if t or xe lil of pf thol oti th of as ls wl o halls all arid mi is ono of the th most suc successful s e I who whon cc of the tho l n professional tour a just started on In the company of arou He lIe to tol the pianist Sol iio to 10 the l li t Calcutta In i t U ho In get L l g to t by b h April Apri by hy tho i May leav leaV lof tho In I ni l written by bya music m norl in t a f CUHl lS |
